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 <title>Twiter and Facebook combned?</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;Twiter and Facebook combned? uhm... sounds interesting. check this out guys... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.immigration-agency.net/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.immigration-agency.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.immigration-agency.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:38:56 -0800</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Louie Parker</dc:creator>
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 <title>Twitter rebuffs $500m stock offer from Facebook</title>
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&lt;p&gt;Twitter has &lt;a href=&quot;http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081124/when-twitter-met-facebook-the-acquisition-deal-that-fail-whaled/&quot;&gt;rebuffed an offer&lt;/a&gt; from Facebook to acquire the thought-streaming company for $500 million in Facebook stock, according to All Things Digital&#039;s Kara Swisher.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She reports that execs at both companies were nearing the end of discussions when talks broke down over the price of the deal. Facebook offered &amp;quot;$500 million&amp;quot; in stock (update: TheDeal &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/money-out/blog/money-out/report-twitter-spurns-facebook.php&quot;&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt; that $100 million was to be in cash) -- but at the Microsoft-purchased share price, a price which could fairly be considered, um, &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic&quot;&gt;inflated&lt;/span&gt;. On top of that, Twitter investors and execs think the company should take a shot at actually building revenues, rather than selling out for who-knows-how-much real money in Facebook stock. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Twitter&#039;s last funding round the company was valued at $98 million -- and Swisher notes that there are a number of other companies that could also be interested in Twitter, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft or -- I suspect more likely -- a large telecom like AT&amp;amp;T or Verizon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Twitter has high hopes for its &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/twitter-we-ll-announce-our-secret-business-model-early-next-year&quot;&gt;secret business model&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;, which will be announced early next year. &lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:49:32 -0800</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Jordan Golson</dc:creator>
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